skstrobel
August 28th, 2008, 11:19 PM
I am working with Ubuntu 8.04 installed in a VMware virtual machine, running it from a desktop shortcut created with VMware Server (the free version). I am trying to change the kernel options, but I can't seem to abort the startup process. In fact, I don't see any messages from GRUB during startup, so I have just been giving control of the keyboard to the VM as early in the startup process as possible by pressing CTRL-G, then pressing "a" or ESC repeatedly to attempt to stop the boot process. Thanks for any suggestions.
Steve
Full disclosure: I messed up my username/password and can't log onto Ubuntu, so I trying to recover the password as described at <http://www.petri.co.il/vmware-esx-server-root-password-reset-recovery-lost.htm>. Any other solution for that problem would be fine too :) Thanks.
Steve
Full disclosure: I messed up my username/password and can't log onto Ubuntu, so I trying to recover the password as described at <http://www.petri.co.il/vmware-esx-server-root-password-reset-recovery-lost.htm>. Any other solution for that problem would be fine too :) Thanks.